The Australian drone startup Flirtey made history on Friday, July 17, conducting the first commercial drone delivery test in the United States, ahead of better-known companies like Amazon.com, which has been harboring ambitions for a drone delivery system for some time.
In three trips, Flirtey’s drone ferried 10 pounds of medicine from a local airport to a clinic in the rural town of Wise, Va., population 3,286 (2010 census).
The company compared the maiden flight to the Wright brothers’ experimentation with the first airplanes in Kitty Hawk, N.C.
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